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Ted Underwood
Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Publications - 53
Citations - 839
Ted Underwood is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Literary criticism & Literary science. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 45 publications receiving 671 citations. Previous affiliations of Ted Underwood include Colby College & Urbana University.
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Skepticism and Surmise in Humphry Davy
TL;DR: Humphry Davy (1778-1829) became the best-known natural philosopher in Regency England in part by applying voltaic electricity to isolate new substances, including the new metals he named "sodium" and "potasium" as discussed by the authors.
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The Historical Significance of Textual Distances
TL;DR: Existing measures of textual similarity (cosine similarity on tf-idf vectors or topic vectors) are compared to new strategies that strive to anchor textual measurement in a social context.
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Historical Difference as Immortality in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novel
TL;DR: A number of mid-nineteenth-century historical novels open by comparing historical imagination to the reanimation of the dead as mentioned in this paper, and often the comparison is embodied in a frame story that focuses on a particular grave or ruin, and then precipitates the narrative into the past through an experience of temporal double vision that seems to rebuild the ruin or throw open the grave.